Access and preserve list names in lapply function

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I believe that lapply by default keeps the names attribute of whatever you are iterating over. When you store the names of myList in n, that vector no longer has any “names”. So if you add that back in via,

names(n) <- names(myList)

and the use lapply as before, you should get the desired result.

Edit

My brains a bit foggy this morning. Here’s another, perhaps more convenient, option:

sapply(n,FUN = ...,simplify = FALSE,USE.NAMES = TRUE)

I was groping about, confused that lapply didn’t have a USE.NAMES argument, and then I actually looked at the code for sapply and realized I was being silly, and this was probably a better way to go.

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